The pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg wants to highlight how it thinks the future of the channel is being treated like a political football.

Members will join a march with other unions and protest groups against the Westminster Government cuts at Cardiff City Hall at 10.15am as the Conservative and Liberal Democrat conferences are staged in the capital.

Jeremy Hunt MP, Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Secretary, last year told the S4C Authority that its funding was being cut by 24.4% over four years in real terms.

He wants S4C to work with the BBC and for S4C to be paid for by a combination of Westminster funding, advertising revenue and the licence fee from 2013-14 to provide a “sustainable and independent” future for Welsh language programming.